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THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

FOR

JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL,
MAY, AND JUNE.

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PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON,
NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1799.

PREFACE.

WE return to our Anthology of the recent lite

rature of our country, with the fame pleafure as ufual, well recollecting that our last half yearly period has not been lefs fruitful than its predecefors, in works that deferve to be recorded. It is now the thirteenth time that we have performed this ufeful task; and a tolerable library might be formed, of the pleafing or important books which we have thus pointed out to public notice.

DIVINITY.

In commencing our remarks upon this fubject, we feel fome unavoidable compunction at the delay of one or two articles, which certainly ought to have appear-. ed in this place: yet as they have been poftponed by caufes beyond our influence or controul, we cannot but hold ourfelves excufable. We had before been betrayed into a fimilar fault refpecting Dr. Blayney's tranflation of Zechariah*, which appeared in 1797, but was only mentioned in our prefent volume. It is one of thofe works which tend, like the Jeremiah of the fame author, to complete the elucidation of the Prophetic Scriptures; and, confequently, is of high importance. Though Mr. Wintle differs, in one

* No. VI. p. 651.

BIT. CRIT. VOL. XII.

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